The dust of the first 12-team playoff has settled and Ohio State has won the national title. That's right: the No. 8 seed in the playoff won the title, something unheard of in FBS football. Just a couple of weeks ago,

Now that it’s all over and the Ohio State Buckeyes are the college football national champions, it can be definitively said: expanding the College Football Playoff worked. The grand experiment to allow more teams to play for the national championship wasn’t perfect,

This Big Ten vs. independent matchup means this is the second straight year that the Southeastern Conference will be shut out of the final.